Next Xbox to have the power of a super computer?

A stray document has been uploaded to Google Docs that appears to show the new Xbox Logo, colours and launch hashtag for the upcoming Next Xbox announcement. But even more intriguing are the coded messages on each of the slides.

I’ll say up front that I’m not totally convinced these are real and are likely to be someone’s idea of a joke but with the reveal just around the corner it is likely that news will start leaking so we’ll leave you to judge for yourself.

All the slides follow the same format with the standard logo up top, the interconnected ideology shown in the graphic at the bottom and with each slide being one of the official Microsoft logo colours.

But what’s all that junk in the middle? Well according to an Italian gaming website it’s an esoteric programming language and this slide apparently says Storm Clouds.

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Deep Computing

Petaflops > Teraflops

So what’s a Petaflop? A petaflop is 1000 teraflops… but that still doesn’t mean much to you at all does it? In it’s simplest form a flop is a measurement of how quickly a computer can process data. If you really want to learn more then head over to the Wiki page and enjoy the research… here is how you calculate one FLOP

Okay great boring stuff done, so as a comparison lets see how many teraflops the current consoles push out? Well according to most sites I can find the current Xbox 360 either pushes out 1 or half a terraflop. The original PS2 claimed to push out 6.4 Megaflops (mega, giga, terra, peta) with the original Xbox pushing 70 megaflops.

The most powerful computer on the planet currently hits 17 Petaflops so the idea that a personal console could hit 1 petaflop is ludicrous… or is it?

yes… yes it is. In 2009 Acer revealed a $15 000 personal computer that managed to hit 1.1 teraflops. So unless Microsoft has found a way to increase that chips power by 1000 in 4 years this claim is totally bogus.

But wouldn’t it be fun to see the PC Master Race gasping for breath if they actually announced it.

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LOL. I think M$ are leaking this “info” to get rid of the negative vibes lately and hype things up. Bazillion teraflops or whatever won’t matter if they only going to make Kinect gamez.

Deano

What would a MS news snippet be without your $ony Fanboi msg. we get it, now move along.

http://twitter.com/D4RKL1NG Martin du preez

cry moar….

Deano

Laughing at you is more the case.

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Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

Quick Martin to the smile mobile!

FoxHoundR

I like call of duty and xbox.

Admiral Chief Erwin

Come now Jimmy, settle down

Rincethis: Spellalicious

And… It starts. Watch out, when his dad returns from renting out the age appropriate movie, the Evil Dead, he may have something to say…

Admiral Chief Erwin

Watch, its Jimmy. Watch the timeline between the posts. You’ll see, its BananaJim

Rincethis: Spellalicious

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Admiral Chief Erwin

You’ll see, its him. Already gave you the carrot, now follow it

Rincethis: Spellalicious

carrots are SOOO last decade, we’re with white rabbits these days…

Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

Pffft white rabbits are so 90s, we follow locusts now…

Rincethis: Spellalicious

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Sir Oldfart

What is all this gobbledegook??
Back in 2005 just as I was finishing up God of War 2 It was the Gears of War MAD WORLD advert that gave me a GIANT NEXT GEN BONER. I was so so so excited… Then the Bioshock advert came on in the Cinema (London)… The cinema seat will never be the same.
I did not give, nobody I know gave a shit what the insides of the new box were. It was the game play footage that stroked our G-Spots.

Im still not feeling it, all I see is this gen games being Hybrid with the next console.

Jesus man, this reads like a scream for help from a 50 Shades of OVG! HAHAHAHA

Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

You know I don’t even need to write anything any more, I just scroll down, look for an OVG post, and feel instantly better. Bless your cotton socks Mr OVG.

Sir Oldfart

Reminds me: must find the other cotton sock. I think I left it in that cinema

TKK

idiot, the design and art are not the limitations and can easily copied or replicated or even topped , they’re subjective too. the specs are the limitations. dude, radeon Malta already boast over 8 teraflop and it’s gonna be released before any ps4 or xbox next even released ! How long are these machines gonna last ? certainly GTX680 is more powerful than ps4….

Sir Oldfart

Whatever turns you on man. That shit flew over my head.
I just press start and play kick ass games that are normally all 3rd party multi platform.

Are you talking about those pictures in the post?

Admiral Chief Erwin

Too much thinking for a FRIDAY

Brady miaau

It’s Friday?

Feels like the day before the big exam

Rincethis: Spellalicious

Dude, your mate FoxHoundR is baaaaack!

Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

If the console releases with over a petaflop of processing power then I will be stunned.

Deon Steyn

Reminds me of the Atari Jaguar. 64-bit console. “Do the math” was their slogan and this was when the 16-bit SNES and Genesis was still out. At least they have the third party support.

http://www.twitter.com/WobblyOnion Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

That was marketing bullshit. It was really just two 32-bit processors (with 32 bit instruction sets) coupled with a 64 bit data path.

Sir Oldfart

Old school

Deon Steyn

I know but the nobody knew at the time. AVGN did an awesome couple of videos on it.

HvR

We will probably be collecting and paying a premium for CD’s and DVD’s since they sound and look better.

Sir Oldfart

I watched my first DVD on the Atari AKA Atari FAIL 64. It was The Firm and split on 2 DVDs lol

http://www.twitter.com/WobblyOnion Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

Pretty sure that was Video CD. The DVD standard wasn’t set at the time, only being finalised and released a year after the Jaguar’s release.

Sir Oldfart

Hell I must be getting old. 20 years from now we will just call them mini silver LPs.

FoxOneZA – The Chosen One

VCD! Oh, the nightmares!!!!

Sir Oldfart

Next gen terror FLOP.

Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

hahaha

Rincethis: Spellalicious

Well done boy!

Anon A Mouse

Petaflop ~ What Darryn is doing alone at night while looking at his Batman suit.

Sir Oldfart

ROFL

http://twitter.com/Darrangedd Darryn Bonthuys

Don’t you mean PetaFap?

Anon A Mouse

You should know.

Rincethis: Spellalicious

hahaha

Anon A Mouse

Well with M$’s profits up by 19% they can subsidize their consoles for a while, or is that just wishful thinking.

Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

I think so, it also means they can launch themselves aggressively. I guess, we should expect a massive advertising campaign, which will border on the nauseating. You know the kind where you actually cringe… like how they tried to force Kinect down everyone’s throats.

Nathan O

More likely cable and ISP providers will end up subsidizing the new xbox.

http://twitter.com/NinjasCreed Ryan Williams

KNEEL BEFORE NEXTXBOX!

Sir Oldfart

Why? are you wrapping a towel around it

Trevor Davies

Am I the only one who thought this?

Sir Oldfart

You see the size of his helmet? That will be the size of the new console.
You see the size of his head? That will be the space actually used by the developers.

Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

Google GLASS!!!

Sir Oldfart

Sweeeeeet Now that is the future and Ill bet you all a muffin its going to make teramillions

http://twitter.com/Kikmi Slade Boender

A million million Ghz to just go onto facebook and watch TV? Nah Ill stick to my i7 thanks

Rincethis: Spellalicious

Lol. Can you imagine a RRoD on a console with a teraflop? Fucking thing would take out half a block!

Sir Oldfart

Not to mention the Bouncy Castle that one would need to hire in order to wrap around the box to re-smealt the mother board back into place while you wait for your re-fernished model to arrive six months later.

Rincethis: Spellalicious

Hang on, if it has a damn teraFLOP, what the hell is the kinetic going to do? Slap you when you jump to the left, when you should have jumped to the right?

Sir Oldfart

That is a terror SLAP

http://twitter.com/D4RKL1NG Martin du preez

Bwahaha!

HvR

Reality check: 1 PetaFLOP processor is 60 times more processing power than AMD’s (the company who probably be supplying the processor for the next Xbox) MOST powerful commercial core (which cost $3000) and a 1 PetaFLOP processor will chow through 500kW with current silicon technology. Best bet is this some marketing ploy where your always online xbox will be coupled to some distrubuted computing system make a theoretical top processing power of 1 PetaFLOP.

There is bigger chance the following NeXtBox rumors are true.
NeXtBox TeamTalk will allow you to talk to Jesus.
Plastic for next box made from Micheal Jackson’s face.
NeXtBox comes with its own real life supermodel concubine.

Sir Oldfart

but can it play games?

Rincethis: Spellalicious

It can not only play games, but satisfy your wife, put the kids in bed, and feed the dog.

Admiral Chief Erwin

LOL you NEED a wife and kids first

Rincethis: Spellalicious

Sho, I should have listened when mumma told me not to share over the internet… 0_O

Admiral Chief Erwin

XD

Still love you buddy, have a cookie

Rincethis: Spellalicious

Don’t want cookie! *Stamps foot

Admiral Chief Erwin

*Eats cookie*

NOW YOU SHALL HAVE NONE!

DrKiller

No science on lazygamer please!!! Formulas and weird words like flops and sockets and stuffs don’t belong here Especially on a Friday!!

You know, I think Microsoft DID in fact go back to the drawing board with the NextKinectBox, post always-on rumours, and they did get a shock because the masses reacted en masse against it. I always thought it was funny that they were so eager to have a conference after Sony, and yet, as everyone started grabbing pitchforks, the big M delayed their conference to May, kept as quiet as possible, after all if you don’t acknowledge a problem it doesn’t exist – Just a pity Orthy-boy didn’t get the memo, and almost sunk their own battleship.

But he was dealt with swiftly… Muahahhahah!

Essentially that means, somewhere in China, one factory is hard at work, implementing the redesign, while at Redmond, a poor team of coders are going through the code trying to “fix” it.

HvR

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess whose back, back again!!

FoxOneZA – The Chosen One

I don’t see what’s the rush in even holding a big reveal event in May. Whichever way, by year end, the Xbox is going to be launched and MS does have enough moola to jump the PS4’s release date. The PS4’s faceless reveal is being seen as an act of desperation after a month and half of nothingness.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Carl-Angus/685100819 Carl Angus

What alot of cok-rot.

A leaked secret da-vinci code for xboxers, implying a very fast system and we eat this bollocks up as news, man geekdom is getting desperate.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Carl-Angus/685100819 Carl Angus

What alot of cok-rot.

A leaked secret da-vinci code for xboxers, implying a very fast system and we eat this bollocks up as news, man geekdom is getting desperate.

FoxOneZA – The Chosen One

The Playstation ship sank a long time ago when Kevin Butler jumped over to the Wii showing not only dire straits ahead but an act of bravery leaving the PS4 on rough green Xbox waters.

deeboy17

Microsoft needs to hurry up and speak out these rumors are getting annoying.

Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

I think it’s time I add a rumour of own, since mine would be just as credible as all the rest.

The NEXTKINECTBOX will be banana-shaped. It will also come with a beer holder and the blu-ray drive will run as quietly as a washing machine. Since, it’ll be made from recycled Red-ringed Xbox 360s, it will be Microsoft’s first Green console. Not just coloured green, but apparently environmentally friendly…

This is true. If they were Swedish, the console would come with solar panels and a tapas menu.

TKK

so what ? who says petaflop is bigger than teraflop ? idiot ! it didn’t even mention how many petaflop. because 0.00123 petaflop=1.23 teraflop. 0 petaflop is smaller than 0.0000000000001 teraflop. 1000 next xbox is so and so petaflop ! go figure idiots ! obviously fake ! the controller….lol at the controller…